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A 24-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 0 (G1P0), at 38 weeks of gestation presents to labor and delivery for spontaneous rupture of membranes. Her pregnancy was uneventful. A baby girl is delivered 13 h later by normal spontaneous vaginal delivery. The baby’s Apgar scores are 8 and 9 at 1 and 5 min, respectively. Shortly after being taken to the nursery, the nurse notices that the baby has diffuse petechiae on the face, scalp, and shoulders. The mother’s hemoglobin is 12.8 g/dL, and the platelet count is 182 K/μL. Meanwhile, the neonatal hemoglobin is 19.8 g/dL, and the platelet count is 32 K/μL. Samples for both the mother and the baby (cord blood sample) (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA] anticoagulant) are submitted to the blood bank.
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Friedman, M.T., West, K.A., Bizargity, P., Annen, K., Jhang, J.S. (2018). Baby Fate. In: Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90960-8_42
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